Posted on 04/29/2015 2:38:07 PM PDT by EveningStar
Vietnamese foodie guide: Critic Brad A. Johnson dishes about the 25 best things to eat in Little Saigon
The scent of Little Saigon hits me in the face.
An intoxicating perfume of jackfruit and bananas and the vanilla-y scent of pandanus leaves wraps itself around me in a warm, tight embrace. It’s a sunny Friday afternoon, and the line to purchase something cold and sweet at Thach Che Hien Khanh in Garden Grove stretches out the front door and down the sidewalk, past a vendor of exotic fruits and knickknacks — chopsticks, paper lanterns, plastic Buddhas, various figurines of the lunar zodiac. Incense from a nearby shop muscles itself into the mix. As I get closer to the dessert counter, I see dozens of wildly colorful puddings and cakes and sheet-pans filled with fluorescent mounds of sticky rice ...
Here are the 25 best things I’ve found to eat — and then some — in Little Saigon ...
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“stray” being the important word there I suppose
The Thais do this too. I don't care for mint in anything but toothpaste and mouthwash and gum. Not in food, especially meat dishes. Guess it's a taste thing.
“I don’t care for mint in anything but toothpaste and mouthwash and gum. Not in food, especially meat dishes. Guess it’s a taste thing.”
Well, mint is OK in candy! ;-)
Many years ago I worked in a well known hospital who sent medical teams all over the world. A neck surgeon took a team to the Philippines to remove thyroid tumors and would do 20+ surgeries a day. They would toss these into a bucket and in the evening would empty the bucket out a back window where feral cats would rush in to gobble them up.
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